The Business Case (and Plan) for Gender Equality

Whitney Wolfe Herd sounded an early alarm on Silicon Valley’s sexist culture in 2014 when she sued her former employer, the dating app Tinder, for discrimination and sexual harassment. Today she’s calling for concrete steps to improve gender inequities in the workplace.

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Whitney Wolfe Herd

April 17, 2018 10:01 am ET

I was 24 when I was embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit. This was 2014, long before, en masse and on social media, we said #MeToo and #TimesUp. At the time, I felt completely alone. Visceral, hateful online harassment from strangers left me paranoid and anxious for years afterward. I suffered from panic attacks and found myself drinking to calm my nerves. Outward support was almost nonexistent.

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